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Täter statt Opfer - Cybercrime braucht echte Konsequenzen
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Using Windows 10 past 14 October? You’re leaving the door open to attackers
Our Kaseya Labs research has found that a staggering 30% of small- to medium-sized business (SMB) workstations have not yet upgraded to Windows 11. That means millions of business computers will be exposed to unpatched vulnerabilities, effectively creating an open season for threat actors who know legacy Windows 10 machines are exploitable. We’ve already seen how this can play out with 40%-60% of breaches worldwide involving unpatched vulnerabilities.
Stop Blaming the Victim: Why the Fight Against Cybercrime Needs to Cha
Ransomware has followed the same pattern as virtually all types of crime, whether physical or cyber. So long as there is high reward with little risk of consequence, and highly specialized skills are not required, the crime rate will continue to increase. Yet while businesses are urged to improve their security posture and face hefty fines for non-compliance with cybersecurity regulations, we’re missing a fundamental truth – even the best defense strategies alone will not end all cybercrime.
Stop Blaming the Victim: Why the Fight Against Cybercrime Needs to Cha
Ransomware has followed the same pattern as virtually all types of crime, whether physical or cyber. So long as there is high reward with little risk of consequence, and highly specialized skills are not required, the crime rate will continue to increase. Yet while businesses are urged to improve their security posture and face hefty fines for non-compliance with cybersecurity regulations, we’re missing a fundamental truth – even the best defense strategies alone will not end all cybercrime.
Healthcare under siege: Strategies for safeguarding services in the face of evolving cyber threats
Healthcare providers are grappling with a series of interconnected challenges that are reshaping the delivery of care. The pursuit of equitable access to healthcare is more crucial than ever, yet it faces significant obstacles due to persistent staff shortages, constrained budgets and evolving cyber threats. In June, the NHS confronted one of its most severe crises to date after Synnovis, a leading pathology testing organisation, fell victim to a devastating cyberattack.
Protecting the NHS: Lessons From the Synnovis Attack
Learning lessons from the June cyber-attack which impacted multiple NHS Trusts. Earlier this summer, the NHS experienced a crisis that has been marked as a significant moment in its history. On June 3rd, leading pathology testing organisation Synnovis fell victim to a devastating cyber-attack that resulted in major impacts affecting seven hospitals managed by two NHS trusts. The attackers gained access to 300 million patient records, including sensitive blood test results for HIV and cancer.
Comment Included : UK's Most Popular Passwords Revealed News Story – Global Security Mag Online
Comment Included: UK’s Most Popular Passwords Revealed News Story November 2022 by Mike Puglia, Chief Strategy Office and General Manager of Security Products, Kaseya In light of the recent national news story on UK’s most popular passwords revealed I would like to offer you some prepared comment from global provider of unified IT management and security software for managed service providers (MSPs) and mid-market enterprises (MMEs), the Comments provided by Mike Puglia, Chief Strategy Office...
Palo Alto Networks erläutert Domain Shadowing
Cyberkriminelle kompromittieren Domainnamen, um die Eigentümer oder Benutzer der Domain direkt anzugreifen oder sie für verschiedene ruchlose Unternehmungen wie Phishing, Malware-Verteilung und Command-and-Control-Operationen (C2) zu nutzen. [...] Ein spezieller Fall von DNS-Hijacking ist das so genannte Domain Shadowing, bei dem Angreifer heimlich bösartige Subdomains unter kompromittierten Domainnamen erstellen.
Das war der Consumer Day 2022
Neues HV-Event versammelte mehr als 100 Retail CEOs, Marketeers & Influencer:innen im Herzen Wiens. [...] Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober, war es endlich soweit: Das Who is Who der heimischen Handels- und Marketingszene kam beim CONSUMER DAY des Handelsverbandes im k47 Wien zusammen. HV-Geschäftsführer Rainer Will und Dragqueen Candy Licious eröffneten die erste Ausgabe des brandneuen Eventformats, ORF-Journalistin Lisa Gadenstätter moderierte charmant durch das Programm.
Kostenlose IT-Ausbildung auf Uni-Niveau - Ecole 42 eröffnet
Binnen neun Monaten wurde der Campus der internationalen Programmierschule „Ecole 42“ in Wien-Döbling aufgebaut und realisiert. Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober, eröffneten die Initiator:innen von 42 Vienna den neuen Österreich Standort in Wien-Döbling. [...] Die aus mehr als 2.700 Bewerber final zugelassenen 132 Studierenden lernen ab sofort selbstbestimmt in Peer-Groups und kommen dabei ohne starren Stundenplan und Vortragende aus.
How MSPs can support SME customers through tough times ahead
By Mike Puglia, Chief Strategy Officer, Kaseya The UK’s SMEs face high inflation and challenging economic conditions after coping with post-pandemic supply chain challenges and Ukraine war disruptions. Even before the BoE’s latest forecast of 13.3% inflation, SMEs expected to lose business as consumers and businesses rein in their expenditures, with Mastercard’s Strive Business Barometer revealing that 42% of SMEs see inflation as the biggest threat.
Capito macht komplexe Sprache verständlich
Viele Menschen verstehen komplexe Informationen nicht. Das bedeutet für diese nicht nur den Ausschluss aus Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft, sondern auch einen enormen volkswirtschaftlichen Schaden. Mit Hilfe von KI übersetzt das steirische Unternehmen capito Texte und Informationen in eine für alle verständliche Sprache. [...] „Mehr als die Hälfte der Menschen hat Probleme, komplexe Informationen zu verstehen“, weiß Paul Anton Mayer, CDO von capito.
New Work Base: Das Büro für Groß und Klein
New Work braucht auch ein New Office – und Kinder ihre eigene kleine Welt im New-Work-Kosmos. Nach einem inspirierenden Partizipationsprozess mit Mitarbeiterinnen, Mitarbeitern und deren Kindern ist in in Wien in der New Work Base der New Work SE eines der ersten Eltern-Kind-Offices in Österreich entstanden.
Cloud-Telefonie-Studie: Unternehmer rüsten sich für hybrides Arbeiten
Der Trend zur Cloud-Telefonie setzt sich fort: Laut der aktuellen Studie „Cloud-Telefonie-Monitor 2022“ von yuutel plant jedes achte heimische Unternehmen (12 Prozent) noch bis Jahresende auf flexible Voice-over-IP-Lösungen aus der Cloud umzusteigen.
Microsoft: Die besten Social Impact Startups in Österreich 2022
Die neue Generation an Sozialunternehmerinnen und Sozialunternehmern Österreich wurde mit dem Social Impact Award (SIA) 2022 ausgezeichnet: Cosmotaics, Failstunde, seedcup und Circle One nahmen den Jury Award mit nach Hause, während Thinkubator mit dem Community Award und Y-Club mit dem Publikumspreis belohnt wurden.
Neue Funktionen für Firefox
Die neue Firefox-Version 106 ist da. Damit hat Mozilla dem Browser wieder einmal ein paar Neuerungen spendiert, die vor allem in Richtung "Quality of Life" gehen. [...] Die Mozilla Foundation hat die Firefox-Version 106.0.1 ausgerollt. Und dieses Update hat neben kleinen Problem Behebungen ein paar neue Funktionen im Gepäck. Firefox View Synchronisierte Tabs: Sie wechseln während der Arbeit oder bei der Recherche für eine schriftliche Arbeit häufig zwischen Laptop und Mobiltelefon?
Cyber Spaces und rollbare Laptop-Bildschirme
Auf der Tech World 22 präsentierte Lenovo neben neuen Produkten und Lösungen auch Partnerschaften und ambitionierte Ziele zur Zukunft der Telepräsenzkommunikation sowie zur Reduzierung der hauseigenen CO₂-Emissionen.
B2B-Online-Marketing 2023 - Welche Trends zeichnen sich ab?
B2B-Unternehmen gehen auch 2023 ihr Online-Marketing mit einer klaren Zielsetzung an. Welche Themen besonders relevant bleiben, zeigt eine Studie von eMinded. [...] Das B2B-Marketing ist im Wandel – welche Trends bleiben, welche kommen? Die Online-Marketing-Agentur eMinded hat dazu 120 Marketingverantwortliche aus der DACH-Region befragt.
EU schlägt neuen Haftungsrahmen für KI-Systeme vor
Bisherige nationale Haftungsvorschiften werden den Besonderheiten von KI-Systemen nicht gerecht. So stammt die gegenwärtige EU-Produkthaftungsrichtlinie noch aus dem Jahr 1985. Inzwischen sind fast vierzig Jahre vergangen. [...] Neue Technologien haben sich entwickelt, deren Spezifika in den aktuellen nationalen haftungsrechtlichen Bestimmungen keinen Niederschlag finden. Dies hat die EU-Kommission zum Anlass genommen, am 28.
Die richtige Lösung mit dem besten Schutz
E-Mails sind aus der heutigen Geschäftswelt nicht mehr wegzudenken. Cyberkriminelle nutzen das aus, um sich Zugang zu kritischen Systemen zu verschaffen und die Infrastruktur zu bedrohen.
How Automation Can Help MSPs During Economic Uncertainty
By Mike Puglia, Kaseya As the global economic climate impacts budgets and forces organizations to pause or reevaluate their appetite for hiring IT roles, managed service providers (MSPs) can get stuck with the burden of maintaining systems with less support than in the past. Adding The Great Resignation and manual, repetitive tasks to the mix are surefire ways to burn out employees and leave the remaining ones stretched too thin. But there is hope.
2022 will see the continuation of hybrid work, increased compliance regulations and more automation
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2022. Read them in this 14th annual VMblog.com series exclusive. By Mike Puglia, Chief Strategy Officer, Kaseya With 2022 right around the corner, now's the time to prepare for both the challenges and opportunities the new year will bring. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will continue to turn to MSPs to meet the growing need for IT services brought on by the ongoing impact of the pandemic.
Securing remote work for holiday travelers
It’s that time of the year — employees are taking time off for the holidays to travel for leisure or to spend time with family. But the downtime doesn’t mean people will not be working, especially since the lines have gotten blurred by hybrid workforces brought on by the pandemic. Even if employees are “off,” there may be an expectation they will be checking in, and, in some cases, working remotely while visiting loved ones for the holidays due to more flexible work and time-off arrangements.
Is Your Remote Working Model Compliant?
With data collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicating that almost 50 per cent of Great Britain’s workforce was working from home in mid-April, and with many organisations looking to consider permanent remote working models as the lockdown eases, the need to effectively manage a secure and compliant remote workforce is increasingly vital. Yet, that mass migration to working from home has inevitably made achieving these goals more challenging.
Small Business Security: 5 Tips on How and Where to Start
This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for security, but a robust plan and the implementation of new technologies will help you and your IT team sleep better.
Windows 7 End of Life: What Are Your Options?
PHOTO: Sonja Langford Are you a Windows 7 user? If so, you’re not alone. During the last decade, Windows 7 has earned a loyal fan base. But come Jan. 14, Microsoft will no longer provide security or support for the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008/R2 operating systems, meaning patching and technical support via Microsoft’s support center will no longer be available.
Windows 7 is Ending -- Don't Put Yourself at Risk
Are you currently running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008/R2? If so, you should be planning a migration to Windows 10. If not, you should start immediately. As of January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide free security updates, patches or technical support from the Microsoft support center. After January 14, continuing to run any system on Windows 7 will put your systems at significant risk from cyber-attacks exploiting new, unpatched vulnerabilities. What’s the big deal?
Attackers are opening new doorways
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2020. Read them in this 12th annual VMblog.com series exclusive. By Mike Puglia, CMO at Kaseya I anticipate that 2020 will see credential stuffing attacks become one of the top exploits. This trend is being driven by three factors today: First, there a millions, even billions, of credentials available on the dark web.
Don't Let the Dow Jones Security Incident Happen to You: Strategies and Steps for Vendor Risk Management
By: Mike Puglia April 24, 2019 Here we go again. When news broke Feb. 27 that a Dow Jones database of 2.4 million businesses and individuals was left on a public server without encryption or password protection, it exposed one of cybersecurity’s most chronic and pernicious problems: risk from third-party vendors and contractors. A Dow Jones spokesperson blamed an unnamed “authorized third party” for leaving the records unsecured on the Amazon Web Services-hosted Elasticsearch database.
What will 2019 hold for enterprise IT?
What will 2019 hold for enterprise IT? January 3, 2019 by Mike Puglia in Industry News Last year saw a raft of changes to enterprise IT driven by the introduction of GDPR in Europe and similar laws across the US, but what can we expect to see from 2019?Mike Puglia of Kaseya explains. We’ve taken a look at insights gained over the past year to make predictions on trends and priorities for SMBs and MSPs for the coming year, as well as pointers to make 2019 a true success.
Avoiding disasters by being prepared with a robust recovery strategy
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Five Tips To Eliminate The Risk From GDPR
As the dust begins to settle on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) following it coming into force last month, thoughts begin to turn to the potential ramifications of a breach in these GDPR compliant times. Not least of which the heavy fines which are a staggering €20m or 4% of annual turnover – whichever is greater.
Cloud Backup Is Critical When Disaster Strikes
September and October 2017 are two months that won’t be soon forgotten. September brought us Hurricane Harvey, devastating the Texas region. A few weeks later came Hurricane Irma, causing havoc in Florida, followed by a catastrophic earthquake in Mexico and Guatemala. Next came Hurricane Maria, flattening Puerto Rico and a good part of the Caribbean. In October, and still burning in some places as you read this article, California was devastated by wildfires up and down the state.
Interview with Mike Puglia, Chief Product Officer at Kaseya | Virtual-Strategy Magazine
MP: Containers enable organizations to isolate specific application workloads. From a security perspective, they reduce the attack surface and enable “single function” workloads – provided they are implemented properly. Containers have matured considerably in the past two years and developers and operations both need to ensure they are taking advantage of the latest security configuration options. MP: When we look at security risks we tend to immediately dive into technical details.
What’s the secret of the Higher-growth MSPs?
The market for managed services in IT is growing fast. According to analyst, Markets and Markets, the global market for managed services will have grown from $107.17 billion in 2014 to $193.34 billion by 2019, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5%. Research by Kaseya confirms this trend.
Organisations must wake up and ensure they actively manage cyber-security
In the past few weeks and months we have seen a massive increase in public hacks and threats hitting the news. Organisations around the world were impacted by WannaCry ransomware which encrypted files, resulting in UK hospitals being immobilised, causing outages of Deutsche Bahn display panels, forcing Honda to take production plants offline and resulting in hundreds of speeding fines have become invalid caused by infected speed cameras.
2017 Predictions - From AI and Machine Learning to Security and Mobile | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #Cloud
Many times, sports have been at the leading edge of data analytics. The book “Moneyball” was one of the first popular books to bring the basic concepts behind data analytics and data science to the general audience. Fantasy leagues, sabermetrics and even games like “Strat-O-Matic” baseball and basketball provided an introduction into basic statistical concepts.
Navigating a way through the cloud - Help Net Security
Private cloud is a compelling proposition for many businesses. With the help of server virtualisation, you can take your own infrastructure; make it ‘cloud-like’ and because it is local, fully control its performance. Unfortunately, as demand grows you have to scale up by adding resources – even if you only need those resources periodically.
6 Steps To Mature Your IT Management
IT departments are often under-resourced and stuck in a cycle of repetitive manual updates and stressful, reactive firefighting – but that doesn’t need be the case as even smaller businesses can reach higher levels of IT management maturity. This can be achieved by automating mundane activities, standardizing and streamlining processes, and leveraging cloud services. By doing so, IT staff will have more time to focus on projects that drive business results and end-user satisfaction.
CIOs: Reflect and learn from 3 recent news headlines
The consumerization of IT means it's a changing world for CIOs and IT departments. Those who want to join in the business leadership of their organizations would do well to consider some recent headlines and how they reflect on IT realities. That advice comes from Mike Puglia, CIO of Kaseya, a cloud-based IT management software provider. Here are three current news stories Puglia says contain lessons for CIOs and CTOs smart enough to see them: 1.
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